PayPal X Innovate 2009 is next week!
Posted on | October 28, 2009 | 11 Comments
Sadly Tom and I won’t be at Innovate 2009. Not for lack of interest either. With Tom consulting now, and me being swamped with Conference work, well, our travel budget has temporarily shrunk. Why should you go? PayPal is opening up its platform to developers. For any developer who has needed a flexible, global payments solution, this is a very big deal. It will simply life for many developers who have struggled with integrating payments. As well, it opens up the doors for finally making money from doing what you are passionate about, something we both encourage.
I can’t even tell you how many times as a developer, AND a consumer I’ve wished for better integration with payment solutions. Not to mention, now that micro-payments are becoming the norm, it just makes sense to make collecting money easier for everyone involved.
Check out the event details, They’ve sold out, but if you’re local, they’ve got limited onsite registration space, don’t miss out!
The PayPal team has a great speaker lineup, including Tim O’Reilly as one of the keynotes. Attending will be some of the most innovative developers in the world of mobile, consumer electronics and financial services. Early adopters will demonstrate how they’re already building businesses on the PayPal platform.
All conference attendees will receive exclusive access to not-yet-released PayPal APIs. You’ll also get the chance to work directly with PayPal engineers and other developers during hands-on labs and code-and-build sessions and interact with PayPal’s leadership team.
Tags: Android > Blackberry > iPhone > Palm Pre > PayPal > symbian > Windows Mobile
InsideMobile – Speaker slides
Posted on | August 25, 2009 | 2 Comments
We’re sorry this took so long, but here’s the presentation materials that we’ve collected so far from our speakers. They’re hosted at Sliderocket under InsideMobile, but take a look here.
We’ve also got one we couldn’t put into SlideShare, here. It’s Mahi’s Tonnect Platform Preso.
Tags: Agile Commerce > Android > content > mojo SDK > Palm Pre > Speakers > WebOS > why come
InsideMobile – Awesome write-up from Clive Boulton
Posted on | August 6, 2009 | Comments Off
One of our attendees posted a cool review of the conference in an unconventional way. A slide Deck.
Take a look at what Clive took away from his time at InsideMobile
InsideMobile Live streaming throughout the day
Posted on | July 26, 2009 | Comments Off
So I’ve got my Jailbroken iPhone going on. So I’ll be live streaming from time to time during InsideMobile.
Take a look here. Probly more of our party/reception, but I’ll wander around all day.
Or just watch here.
Insidemobile – Directions and Address
Posted on | July 25, 2009 | 1 Comment
For those that don’t know where the Ebay Town Hall is Here’s the address.
2211 N. 1st st.
San Jose, CA 95131
InsideMobile already invading Silicon Valley
Posted on | July 23, 2009 | 1 Comment
Tom, here.
I landed yesterday and immediately sprang into InsideMobile magic. I met up with Rob Weaver from AccuWeaver first. Rob helped us with 360|iDev in March, so he was asking how he can help us with InsideMobile. Rob’s one of those guys that does it all: development, can manage a team, head up a project, etc. (Sidenote: if you need someone like that in Silicon Valley, he has a few spare cycles so hit him up ASAP!)
Rob and I then made a pit stop at eBay. We ran into the man in charge of the facilities and like Houston, got the “All systems go!” There’s no turning back now folks, eBay/PayPal are ready to welcome you to their house. Facilities are currently taken up for some exciting news coming from PayPal, but they’ll be ready for us by Sunday.
Next up was @Abbi from FastMac makers of the coolest Mac t-shirts around. Abbit is a hardware developer as well, thinking up new things for mobile devices. He sends his best to you InsideMobilers but has to miss the show due to a trip to Canada. Abbi also treated Rob and I to yummy dim-sum. Thanks, Abbi!
InsideMobile then invaded the Silvafug meeting (the flex user group I used to run). I raffled off some tickets to the folks there, but then noticed some were leaving. ”Off to the twitter meetup at Google.” I noticed @TimBurks (one of the Silicon Valley tech superstars,360|iDev speaker and organizer of the iPhone meetup group) was also twittering about the event. It didn’t take a genius to decide where to go next.
Before I bailed though, I hitup @mobclix to see if they were in the hizzy to give me a tour of their swank new diggs since I was down the street. Alas, they were not home or their twitter client was dead since I got no response (LOL), so off I went to the Googleplex.
The tmeetup was pretty cool. I missed most of the remote speaker but caught the panel. I was most excited to see the twitter API folks, but there was too many questions for me to get mine in. At the end of the event, I got up and hyped the show some more. I gave out some free passes there as well to help spred the social love. After a quick hello to both @TimBurks and @bess, I was off to catch some sleep. When you leave at 4:30 am to catch a 6:10 flight, the sandman comes early.
All in all, a good day of work for the show. Can’t wait to see you all there. Oh and if for lame reason, you still haven’t bought your ticket. Go register now and use the InMoBlog discount code to make admission $150. See you soon!
Tags: AbbiV > AccuWeaver > BessHo > Fastmac > Mobclix > Silvafug > TimBurks > tmeetup
InsideMobile – What’s the Plan?
Posted on | July 22, 2009 | Comments Off
I thought I’d take a minute (or 3) to make sure the full line up and plan for InsideMobile was clear.
Sunday:
We start Sunday morning, we’ll have coffee, cuz you know it’s Sunday morning and you have to be up. There’s 2 rooms of hands-on classes.
Room 1: All day PalmPre training. Pivotal Labs and AgileCommerce are splitting the day.
Room 2: is Mobile Design with Brian Fling, and PhoneGap hands on from Nitobi
After that (5:00ish) we’re doing a cool Ignite style Demo Rama. Sponsors and anyone else who’d like can give a quick 5 minute talk about what they’re up to. No boring sales pitch, please 
Then we party. Medialets has sponsored some beer and yummies for the Sunday night. A chance for everyone to meet and mingle, pick up badges and bags, etc.
Monday:
We’re back bright and early Monday morning for a keynote featuring; Paypal, Symbian, Samsung, and more.
After that it’s 4 rooms, of sessions 20 or so in all! During lunch (Don’t worry we’re providing lunch, you don’t have to go anywhere) Samsung will be providing some edutainment on the patio.
To end the day, we’ve got Phil Libin of Evernote, holding a single mega session keynote style. We’re all going to be together in one room to hear what Phil has to say.
After that we’ve got a two part panel of industry experts, covering ‘The Evolution of Mobile’ and ‘The monetization of Mobile’
And then we fly home.
It’s not too late to register. use ‘InMoBlog’ to save $100 off the already crazy affordable $250 full price. Register Now!
Tags: Agile Commerce > Android > attendees > Giorgio Natili > iPhone > mojo SDK > Palm Pre > Pivotal Labs > schedule > Speakers > symbian > WebOS > why come > Windows Mobile
InsideMobile – The Speakers – Jeff Haynie
Posted on | July 22, 2009 | Comments Off
Sadly, Dan Burcaw won’t be able to present at InsideMobile… 
He had a family emergency crop up and in the true spirit of all emergencies it didn’t care that he was supposed to be partying with us in San Jose.
Luckily we had two awesome presenters in the wings, should a spot open. One is Jeff Haynie, of Appcelerator!
His session, titled, “Tap into the Growing iPhone and Android Market Using Your Web development Skills” will focus on how developers can leverage the skills they’ve already got, have in fact had for a long time in many cases, to build incredible mobile applications, that run natively on the iPhone and Android.
Whether it’s on the web, on the desktop, or on-the-go, customers today are simply always on. Exhibit A: the exploding smartphone market, already bigger than the laptop market, and growing 20% each year for at least the next 5 years. Exhibit B: the iPhone, which shipped over 40 million units in one year, and the Android platform, which will grow 900% in 2009.
As customers increasingly look at these devices to stay connected and informed, developers must be able to quickly adjust to the demands of the new platforms required to serve these users. With a huge market at their fingertips, how can web developers quickly and easily write unique and diverse applications for both iPhone and Android mobile platforms?
Appcelerator’s co-founder and CEO, Jeff Haynie, will discuss how Appcelerator’s Titanium platform empowers web developers to take their existing web skill sets and build fully native applications for both iPhone and Android platforms. Developers without knowledge of Objective-C or Java — the languages traditionally used to code iPhone and Android apps — can still create native apps quickly and easily using the JavaScript, HTML and CSS knowledge they already have.
Jeff will walk through some sample applications, unveil the code for developing the apps, and illustrate how a web developer can use Titanium to extend their application’s reach. Attendees will walk away with a larger understanding of how these new aspects of Titanium are shedding light on the future of “build once, publish many” form of application development.
Jeff’s session, in addition to the Phonegap hands on training that will take place on Sunday, are must see sessions for any developer looking at mobile platforms, unable or unwilling to throw their lot in with just one!
Register now! InsideMobile is coming up really fast, and space IS limited! Because you’re reading the blog, and we love our words to be read, you can register with ‘InMoBlog’ and save $100! Register Now!
Tags: Android > iPhone > schedule > Speakers > why come
InsideMobile – The Speakers – Eric and Gary agile Commerce
Posted on | July 21, 2009 | Comments Off
Now that Palm as pulled the curtain back and let developers everywhere into the mix with the public release of the Mojo SDK for Palm’s WebOS, we get to talk more about the cool guys from AgileCommerce!
Not only are Eric and Gary doing half of our full day Palm Pre training on Sunday, they’ll be talking on Monday about “webOS: The Platform You already Know“. If you think about it, that’s true. Sure you can build web apps for any mobile device, that run in mobile browsers, but WebOS brings that power to the actual OS of the phone. Developers just build web apps/widgets, in the Mojo SDK, and bam, Palm Pre app.
The Pre Marketplace for apps is well anemic at this point, but what that really means, is room for the first winners! Whether the first fart app (Yeah there’ll be a lot I’m sure) or the first price checker, AR app, location based social network, etc. The playing field is wide open for a whole range of “firsts” Don’t miss out!
Palm webOS is the latest entrant into the mobile platform community and is positioned to become a significant player. What sets it apart from other platforms is how pervasively it embraces open source technology and web standards, specifically HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. In this session, we’ll show how existing web development skills can be leveraged to develop webOS applications. We’ll also show that not only are the languages of a webOS application familiar, but also that the architecture and structure of a webOS application follows familiar paradigms.
InsideMobile is the first event with public training on Mojo SDK, and we’ve got some of the early leaders in this platform to lead it! At $250 for 2 days of awesome, well that’s kind of a no brainer! But on top of that, for making it this far in this blog entry, you get $100 off if you use the code, ‘InMoBlog’
Register Now! Don’t miss an awesome event!
InsideMobile – The Panel discussion
Posted on | July 21, 2009 | Comments Off
For InsideMobile we wanted to have a panel. With so many industry heavyweights it only made sense to get them all up on stage together and have a conversation!
We decided that we’d make our panel a two-parter, in order to cover the two important topics our event also covers: The Evolution of Mobile: Beyond the phone Panel and Monetization of Mobile: Show me the Money!
Speakers
